Security at Science and Natural History museums to ballot for strike action

Exclusive: More than 70 guards at the London attractions taking part after ‘years of real-terms pay cuts’

Security guards at two of the UK’s most prestigious museums – the Science and Natural History museums – are balloting for strike action in a dispute over wages.

More than 70 guards who, unlike many other museum staff, are not employed in house but are outsourced to a company called Wilson James, are taking part in the strike ballot which opened on Friday (6 September).